On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 08:06:42AM -0500, Paul Davis wrote: > They say that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. > I say that those who do not know history should google for "lionstracs > keyboard", although they may still end up repeating history anyway. And before that there was the OpenNeko, and from memory another one before that too. I don't know the history of what happened to Lionstracs but from memory they were all taking the approach of taking a general purpose computer and welding a synth keyboard onto it. They wanted to have a standard desktop GUI and run any software available for Linux. Definitely lots to learn from there. The reason I like the Nord Stage is because it's very much the opposite direction. It's not a workstation keyboard. It's not bringing a standard computer UI to a keyboard, it's taking a musician-oriented view of the interface. No menu diving, just buttons, knobs and switches to control the things you need as you're playing. There's also been a lot of change since those projects. Useable solid state storage and the explosion of interest in smaller form-factor devices are two major game changers. Len mentioned the MOD duo, which is much more the sort of direction thing I'm persinally interested in than a frankenserver running KDE with a bank of ivories attached. bjb _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
